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15:01
@kalina I almost voted to close your "How long do my games stay on sale?" Game Dev Tycoon as a dupe of the Game Dev Story one. <_< Caught myself though!
@Fluttershy you wouldn't have been the first person to make that mistake today!
@fbueckert hey, long time no speak! How are you doing?
Yayy! I'm not the only person with the dumb today!
Now, shower time.
@kalina Good. Life's been crazy busy.
@GrumpyLazers Are any of the mods considering migrating this?
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Me.
15:08
You're not a mod
@fbueckert good!
@kalina That, and Monster Hunter's has it's hooks in me.
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I am a mod of my life.
@fbueckert it's good to see you properly into a game
@kalina There's a reason I was looking forward to this game. Most can't compare, especially for complexity and not hand holding.
15:12
my games company is starting to fail
@fbueckert I really need to get that. I'm so tired of games holding my hand
sad story
I have learned a lot for my next playthrough though
ironically, it was my game "RAGE" that killed me
@kalina What year is this?
That's why I love roguelikes and Dwarf Fortress
@YiJiang'sEvilClone 19
15:12
@SaintWacko Think Dark Souls difficulty, with higher levels of equipment complexity.
@kalina My 2nd playthrough of GDS went infinitely better than the 1st.
Also, sidenote: you can talkin the MH3U room; I have you explicit permission.
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Q: How does time pass?

Ben BrockaWhen I go into dungeons, days pass and my Scouts finish their work. It seems to pass quite quickly, as popping into a dungeon and defeating a single enemy is enough for scouts to return from a relatively brief mission. But how does time pass exactly? Does a number of minutes inside a dungeon cou...

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Q: How can I fix bugs that become apparent post release?

kalinaI released a game called RAGE - even though the game was released with 0 bugs and broke technology and design records, post release there were a lot of bugs which made the game unplayable. I see the humour in the irony. However, while it was suggested that I should fix these bugs, I didn't have ...

God damn it I hate it when things that should never break break.
15:13
@YiJiang'sEvilClone no, year 19
the xbox 360 isn't out yet
@fredley I know, I'm still upset about the Titanic.
@SaintWacko Have you checked out Timber and Stone?
If your database migration system has a tool to automatically generate migration SQL, that SQL should not throw syntax errors.
Oh, and I'm happy to report that I'm playing Black Mesa on Easy. Gordon is dying so many times falling off platforms and drowning in radioactive pools that I think it'll be less frustrating if I don't have to reload every time a bunch of headcrabs jump me
@fbueckert I haven't played that yet. I do absolutely love equipment complexity, though
15:14
And it should not leave your database in an inconsistent state as a result
@Fluttershy That's the one that's a lot like Towns, isn't it?
@SaintWacko I've never played Towns, so I have no idea. >_>
@fredley Hit it with a hammer.
@OrigamiRobot It's a VM :(
@fredley virtual hammer then
15:15
@fredley That's why working on hardware is better than working on software.
@Fluttershy Oh, wait, wow. Holy shit, that's like Towns on steroids
The top comment there seems to suggest yes.
Last time I looked at it, it was quite a bit less evolved
@Fluttershy I should get around to playing this...
15:16
@OrigamiRobot It's pretty decent.
@SaintWacko Monster Hunter has that in spades.
@SaintWacko It's finally in its first open beta. By that, I mean it's available to non-backers of the Kickstarter, but only if you donate.
Poor Gordon. I wonder if I should start keeping a body count spreadsheet.
Each piece gives you skill points towards specific skills.
Once you get to a threshold, you activate the skill.
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Do it.
15:18
Equipment can also have slots, where you can insert gems to provide skill points to other skills, or strengthen your current ones.
I think I died 4 times to the giant fire breathing monster before realizing that, hey, the bunch of explosive laser mines that were just handed to you doesn't actually do any damage to it and you're just suppose to cover your head and ruuuuuuuun
@SaintWacko Ping me next time you're on Steam.
@Unionhawk Should I start over? :P
@Fluttershy Hm, I'l probably get it. Looks like fun
I don't like that there isn't proper item management, though
Looks like items only exist as data
Yeah, there's no storage or anything like that.
15:20
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Q: What can I do about piracy?

kalinaHelp! My games are being pirated! People are choosing to get copies of my material illegally rather than giving me large sums of money instead! I seem to be given the option to "Warn Them" or "Sue Them": What are the repercussions of each of these actions? Will they affect the number of fans I...

somebody downvoted me!
Yeah, why not...
HOW RUDE!
@kalina I fixed it!
@kalina Someone probably thinks you're actually dealing with the pirated version.
And so, fredley sets out into SO, in a perilous quest for knowledge
15:22
@fredley It's dangerous to go alone. Take this...
@Fluttershy other people's inability to read, right? :p
Amongst the thickly populated city lurk trolls, stupid comments, and worst of all, people who don't even read the question
But his first challenge will be to be noticed at all
@Fluttershy Alright, I'm buying it
That looks neat
@Fluttershy Was expecting pony.
@SaintWacko I can give you a demo if you want to try it before you buy it.
15:24
@Fluttershy Is the demo steam only?
@SaintWacko Nope. Completely DRM free.
To make things worse, the smelliest person in the universe has decided to set up shop on the opposite desk
@Fluttershy That would be awesome
Let me pull up steam on my phone
I need to play more KSP.
MY GAMES COMPANY IS SAVED!!
15:28
@kalina what kind of game is "Cake: Genocide"?
post apocalyptic action rpg
So I've just been to the barber. In the middle of my haircut the hair dresser turns to a colleague and says, "I am asking for a transfer." The colleague replies, "Where to, My Little Pony ~?
ie: fallout
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@Blem Killing mass quantities of cake? Sounds like my kind of game. So long as it's with fire, and not by eating it.
15:30
@Fluttershy @kalina was involved, so most likely lots of fire
... and yellowcake.
In other news, a client has reported an issue that's only able to be replicated in IE 8.
It doesn't even show up when using IE's dev tools.
at least they're not using IE 6?
solution: update your browser.
@Blem It's a public website.
15:39
then it is not a problem, then you can just tell people to update there browser, it is worse with the people working at government institutions and companies where the IT department have to approve the security in software and they haven't gotten around to "testing" new browsers
@kalina Isn't the premise of the game being transported back in time?
@fredley yeah
you take part in the games industry under the assumption that you were there at the start
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@SaintWacko
the only two platforms you can develop for at the start is the C64 and PC
@kalina So why the hell are you starting a games company and not buying mountains and mountains of Apple stock?
15:41
the NES gets released after the start of the game
my code is not working but it is getting late here so all i can say is this:
@fredley that isn't an option...
@Blem This is me too
@kalina Silly game.
I've been bailed out by the bank twice, but I've made it to the PS3 release
@kalina In alternate past reality, banks bail out you!
15:45
@fbueckert Ahaha
I want this
@kalina but... you made N64 WoW? Did it flop?
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Q: Can I see Dota 2 game info online?

DoomsknightMy brother just played Dota 2. For once hes done well, I want to see if the team carried him. ID: 184114837 Can anyone show how to pull up match info based on the ID Without the game. Aka, via web-browser.

@Sconibulus nope, it also wasn't massively multiplayer, I guess I got that wrong since I've only just got "online play" as something I can research
it was regarded as the best game I've ever made though
I am tempted to restart so I can properly apply everything I've learned so far
@SaintWacko I love how they used SuperTuxCart
@fredley Yeah, that was great
15:52
@SaintWacko Looks awesome, and actually viable
Although using it to play videos will never happen
@fredley Yeah, but for games...
"You can watch videos partially obscured by your furniture, wow!"
@SaintWacko yeah, that's awesome
Then make the illumiroom 360 that covers the whole room in all directions
@fredley Yeah, exactly
@fredley That would be incredible
OK. Stupid IE8 only CSS issue solved.
Had to specifically override it in the styling, just for it.
@fbueckert I solve IE8 only CSS issues by using a proper browser
15:56
@SaintWacko Although Oculus Rift is already leapfrogging them
@SaintWacko I just bitch and moan, and charge the client triple.
@fredley I don't know, from what I've seen, I prefer illumiroom
Much better than wearing goggles to play, and more natural
@SaintWacko I guess so. It's at a sweet spot between immersion and convenience.
@SaintWacko No goggles, but Illumiroom has the problem that it's projecting on all sorts of irregular surfaces
@BenBrocka Yeah, but it looks like it does a pretty good job of it
16:00
@SaintWacko The bit where it makes your furniture grayscale is cool, and the way it interacts with it
@Fluttershy Is there any effective difference between coastal water and river water?
@fredley Yeah, that's actually one of the coolest things about it
How it can change how the room looks
@SaintWacko Not that I can tell. I tend to stick to rivers though, because they generally have more trees around than oceans.
And iron/tin/etc. are more frequent further from coast.
@Fluttershy I just found a coastal location with frequent/abundant in all mined materials and all animals
Sparse trees, but not too bad
@SaintWacko Well that doesn't sound too bad. Also, trees grow back if you don't remove stumps!
16:06
@Fluttershy good, I was hoping you could remove stumps
Can you plant trees?
@SaintWacko I don't know. I haven't tried that yet. But to remove stumps, just right click them and you should see the option.
@Fluttershy ah, nice
I like that there are actually skills and different jobs. that was the one thing I dislike about Towns
@fredley Wow how do people come up with this stuff?
Seems like a bad idea for a game peripheral, but for your car
I started playing Homeworld 2.
The game loves to stutter on modern hardware.
16:18
This is a list of fictional colors which were invented for a fictional piece of work. *Garrow  and Infra-White  – colors invented in the Nebulous episode "Madness is a Strange Colour". Both colors affect the human mind in odd ways, either destroying or creating sanity. Professor Nebulous claims that he discovered Infra-White by looking underneath and behind the visible spectrum. *Fuligin â€“ both a color and a textile having that color, associated with the Guild of Torturers in Gene Wolfe's book, The Shadow of the Torturer. The color is defined as "the color that is darker t...
... Really now?
@YiJiang'sEvilClone That's a lot of Chapter 3's for a Valve game
> Blellow is the name given to the color created by Reese of Malcolm in the Middle when he mixed blue and yellow together. Otherwise known as green.
@fredley 38 idiots who should not have a drivers licence... oh 39 including the guy who wants it made
Tomb Raider (Steam) is currently $20 on Green Man Gaming with code GMG20-GGN5D-FC3NA - http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/action/tomb-raider/
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Q: How could you describe your first Minecraft Experience?

user47183When you just bought minecraft and decided to play. What did you do first? And tell us your story. I started looking for a place to hide in the night. When it was night I had a furnace, 2 chests, door, crafting bench and other stuff. I went mob hunting but when I returned home a creeper killed me...

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Q: Does the workrate of an employee effect anything during the development stages?

kalinaDuring the development stages for your game, you go through multiple stages programming and developing various elements of your game, for example Artificial Intelligence, Graphics, Sound, etc. I have been sending my employees on "time trial" coding exercises, which increase the speed that employ...

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Q: What are the effects of overworking or overloading an employee?

kalinaDuring development of larger and more complex games, you get to assign your programmers based on their strengths. The amount of time they spend on their assigned parts of the game is shown as an accumulative number as you can see on the right of this screenshot: Having this number above 100% d...

16:28
@fredley I liked the classic video of Unreasonably Happy Friends all in the same car at once, too
Needs more Women Laughing While Eating Salad though
That's how you know the product's good
@GrumpyLazers @kalina should already know the answer to this.
Also, who is downvoting these?
Probably because they don't have any women laughing alone with salad
Someone seems to have something against @kalina...
@Fluttershy The one non-kalina game dev tycoon question also has one downvote.
16:43
come on I need a winning ace high showdown how hard can it be
finally.
@Fluttershy Do you ever get more people?
headdesk Oh man people... One_dude: "I play sniper competitively" 2 mins later Moron: "Stop aimbotting asshole" I spec him, clearly not, moron persists with his accusations >.>
Hah, all of the top page results for game dev tycoon are about the piracy thing, plus one question about piracy in game
Clearly people don't know what an aimbot is
Or how to spot one
Though honestly I would'nt be surprised if they made up the scale of piracy for a good story
16:48
@Unionhawk GODDAMN SENTRIES
STOP IT MATH
@badp Exactly, mini sentries, are aimbot uber haxors. Competitive snipers that make nice shots, are not.
@Fluttershy lots of people have something against me
@kalina You make that too easy.
16:49
just post that and they will quiet down
@badp but votes aren't meant to be against the person! ;p
I guess I'll just do what everybody else wants and enter my phase "inactive" phase early
You should probably make a big deal and delete your account.
At the very least threaten to do so.
@OrigamiRobot pretty much the only way you'll catch up with me
;p
Probably. I don't ask questions anymore :/
@OrigamiRobot You did about MH3U.
And I spent an entire evening last week answering a couple of them.
16:53
I want to start a new playthrough but it looks like this game only has one save slot?
@kalina PC game. Cut and paste save file.
@kalina Indeed.
If you try to start a new game a screen comes up saying "#YOLO" and the game never works again
@BenBrocka Plenty of games like this.
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Q: Should i restart over a mask

Oliver TigheAs you may have heard in one of my earlier questions i lost nahkriin (dragon priest mask)and i am unsure whether to restart , iam lvl 32 and have orcish armour and the mace of molag bal , i have completed the companions , main storyline , thieves guild , nearly completed dragonbor dlc , got a nea...

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Q: Can prey go inside lodges?

SaadBenI've been tracking a mule deer for 3000m+ (it just won't give me a break) And now the most fresh track I found points (for the most of it) inside a lodge. Given the huge area to cover (i'm still in a "far track" state), should I just ignore all the lodge area ? Can deer, or prey in general, go in...

17:06
Can we destroy this user?
His contributions, while technically answers, are offensive.
Aw... I can't see those anymore. =(
Much appreciated.
@Fluttershy Just check out the most recent clash of clans questions on the front page.
If you've got 10K, you should be able to see the deleted answer.
ah mathematics
how you are a blight on the sane
17:19
@kalina Yup
Sidenote: Star Command is being released for iOS on May 2nd.
If you really like games like Game Dev Story and such, don't get it.
12 deaths so far on my second playthrough of Black Mesa, which is significantly less than my first. I think at this point on my first playthrough I'd have killed Gordon more than 100 times
I don't think I've actually ever played a game like this
Oh god. I just went over 200 rep and so many notifications.
@kalina Like what?
17:23
@NightExcessive Association bonuses!
@YiJiang'sEvilClone game dev tycoon
You've never played management sim games?
I've played those since Primary school. The computers there had a hot dog stand simulator installed amongst the "educational" games
@fbueckert My association bonus gave me an extra 100 rep on Arqade too?
@NightExcessive Yep.
We discovered through trial and error that $30 hot dogs didn't sell well
17:25
Kalina has found the next generation of spreadsheet driven games!
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AB is for all sites, including the one you earned it on.
Star Command was touted as "Game Dev Story meets Sci-FI" when it was first announced.
@FEichinger That's odd but I'm not complaining!
Two years later, uncountable missed release dates, it's finally coming out, but only 30% of what was promised.
These are not devs that deserve a purchase.
17:28
oh, I can create tag wiki's without hitting the review queue...
...
BRB SETTING FIRE TO WORLD
@kalina I thought we've already established this the day you got 20k
maybe I forgot
I mean it's not like I have the best memory in the world or anything
> what does the animation look like when an ally shen ults on vladimir when is is about to use sanguine pool?
I swear the language LoL players speak is not English
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@YiJiang'sEvilClone My favorite was the one where the guy forgot that his caps lock was on.
@Fluttershy "unity web player" pass
17:40
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Q: What different experiences bonuses are available and how do you get them?

kalinaWhen you complete a game, there are a variety of experience bonuses that accumulate into a multiplier and increase the amount of experience you get in a variety of areas of both game development and individual experience levels for your employees. Such bonuses include; New Topic New Combo G...

Please Math, stop flagging.
Is it possible to revoke an entire site's flagging privileges?
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Awww man, libraries closed for the 30th and 1st
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Q: How to make someone walk in skyrim?

Trevor RudolphI'm coding a mod for skyrim with papyrus and the creation kit. But I can't seem to get an Actor to move from point a to point b. I know there's a function to teleport an actor but how can I make them walk or run using papyrus? Any help is appreciated, thanks!

^ So... not migrating?
17:56
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Other than Amy and Rory, I don't get who these are supposed to be.
@OrigamiRobot Clara and the Doctor's wife, no?
River and Clara
Although Clara looks a little odd
River isn't blonde
Is it possible to un-community wiki? I accidentally made an answer a community wiki answer.
17:57
@NightExcessive Flag for mod
It should be possible to undo
I was about to just delete it and repost it. Bad idea?
@OrigamiRobot Looks considerably blonde to me.
Are you joking?
I said "considerably", didn't I?
18:00
That doens't help your case.
@OrigamiRobot like that wouldn't have been abused faster than light
@YiJiang'sEvilClone yeah, only mods can unwikificate
@GrumpyLazers I hoped this was a Majora's Mask question
I'm currently downloading 5 Centimeters Per Second. This is probably a bad idea.
Yeah that's not the best download speed
@BenBrocka I heard with fiber optics you can get speeds that are light years ahead
18:11
@BenBrocka Really? My conclusion was that it was built 10+ years ago.
@Powerlord copyright 2009, references IE10 on the page
@Powerlord Same thing
@BenBrocka That they updated the FAQ doesn't invalidate what I said.
> Many of these are no longer available.
...
@Unionhawk "Yeah, we know there's a problem, but we ain't gunna fix it"
18:19
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Q: What is the most effective method of defending a star?

NightExcessiveIn Sins: Trinity, what is the most effective method of holding and defending a star and the associated system?

the design is very reminiscent of early Yahoo
@GrumpyLazers Starbase / Titan
I think... yeah, you can have either/both of those on a star
The gravity well is huge, though. Need to position it carefully so that the entry points are covered
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Yes
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Titans are post-Trinity
Oh, right, I forgot. Starbase it is, then
18:26
Hah. EA's getting sued for Madden.
Serves them right.
@fbueckert Ooh, really?
@fbueckert That answer is hilarriase.
> Your delete vote has been recorded
@fbueckert Delete. I really don't see an answer there - "they respawn often" doesn't answer the question of whether there's infinitely respawn
18:33
@fbueckert Delete
THAT IS NOT HOW YOU MAKE THE EURO SIGN SAMSUNG
@badp grouper is google's code name for the N7
@SaintWacko This came a half-week late :)
@badp It was. See down by the zero? The little double lines just floated away
@badp Heh, sorry
You got it working, though?
@SaintWacko yeah, I've been running PA for a few days now.
18:38
I haven't been on the internet much this weekend
The March version I'd installed kept thrashing my home screen.
I upgraded it to the latest and it just didn't want to go to landscape orientation
Luckily Skype is a shitty piece of software that will only work in landscape
so once I launched that I locked orientation and I have been okay
@badp I think there are apps which give you a screen rotation widget
@badp I'm still afraid to try and log into Skype on my iPhone again, after it tried to download huge amounts of message history the last time and froze the device.
@badp On the Nexus7?
@Coronus yep.
the 3G "tilapia" edition
18:44
Interesting. I was about to try loading it onto mine since my vid chat app is getting more sluggish with each update, and I'm looking at alternatives.
@fbueckert from the storry Robin Antonick just sound like a greedy person, I am not a fan of EA but based on that little information I would not support Robin's clame
What sort of video calling do you do?
@Blem I dunno; sounds more like EA cut him out and screwed him over.
Mostly, though, what I'm amused at is that EA has to argue against copyright.
@fbueckert What? Like EA would ever do something like that. Psh
They may eviscerate their own exclusivity to making sports games in the process.
@SaintWacko Just like they'd never make their salaried developers work unpaid overtime. That's just barbaric.
18:56
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Q: Cheapest mystic forge recipes?

BrianWhat are the cheapest mystic forge recipes? This information would be helpful for completing the Daily Mystic Forgesmith achievement regularly.

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Q: Differences when playing a Pandaren in contrast to getting there with another race/character

Christian IvicevicI used to play some chars with different classes and races but still didn't manage to get beyond level 75 and therefore wasn't on Pandaria yet. After a few months I wanted to create a new char and would like to play as a Pandaren. What are the differences starting as one in contrast to level up a...

Ouch. Space rock hit the IIS' solar array
@BenBrocka Is that why all the foil is ripped?

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